Zero Degrees of Empathy: A New Theory of Human Cruelty by Simon Baron-Cohen

A fascinating book. The opening sentence:- When I was seven years old, my father told me the Nazis had turned Jews into lampshades. This book tries to... ...examine why some people become capable of cruelty, and whence a loss of empathy inevitably has this consequence. This book goes deeper into the subject than I have …

Daniel Kahneman: Thinking, Fast and Slow

There have been many good books on human rationality and irrationality, but only one masterpiece. That masterpiece is Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow. So says William Easterly, writing in the Financial Times. Having just finished this book, I would add that not only is it a masterpiece, it is an eminently readable and comprehensible …